... just piercing your astral body to the very center of your being. As you go closer, as you go deeper, a great silence descends on you. A little more... and a peace that you have never known before surrounds you. A little more... and you are at the center of your being. This moment you are the most fortunate beings on the earth. A great ecstasy starts flowering in the very center of your being, like a...

... lotus. The fragrance is of another world. The only quality you have to remember is: Witness everything, but don't get identified with anything. You are not the body, you are not the mind, you are not the astral body full of light. You are only a witness, centered, just watching, reflecting like a mirror. On this mirror no dust ever gathers. To make it clear, Nivedano... (drumbeat) Relax, but remember...

...;How can two souls live in one body?" -- as if he understands what a soul is! The soul is pure light, and in a room you can have one candle, you can have one thousand candles, because the light does not take space. The light is not the thing that takes the space. You can have one thousand... You can see around you thousands of bulbs and thousands of lights. The lights are not struggling for...

... souls possessing one man's body. And if you want more data and research on the subject, you should go to Rajasthan, to Jaipur, to have a look in the University of Rajasthan -- that is the only university in India which has a department for parapsychology. They have been collecting all the cases of possession by spirits -- so you will know that it is not a question at all of space. Two souls can be in...

... one body without any difficulty. They don't have any conflict of territory. Just watch light and you will understand. One candle or one thousand candles in a small room -- do you think there will be great chaos? One thousand candles? -- where will they find the space? Light does not need space. I am answering this question, not for your sake, Mr. Editor, I am answering this question for my people to...

... box was completely sealed. They wanted to know that, if the soul leaves the body, how can it leave the box? "We will catch hold of the soul." And if the soul leaves the body, the body must lose some weight, so they weighed the body as accurately as possible. But the man died, and nothing left the glass box, because for the soul, matter is not a hindrance. You know that X-rays can enter...

... your body and the body cannot prevent them; you don't feel even that the X-rays are entering in your body when an X-ray is taken. The soul is a far more refined, ultimate light, so when it leaves the body you cannot see it. If you have not seen it already within yourself, you will never be able to see anybody's soul leaving him. Then they opened the case, and they could not find it. So they weighed...

... the dead man again: he had the same weight. For the materialist it is enough proof that there is no soul, because nothing has left the box and the man's dead body weighs the same as when he was living. For the materialist scientists it was enough to prove that there is no soul. It is not enough for me. The soul does not have weight. Do you think light has weight? Try... put one candle on your...

.... He would say, "Yes, she has always been out. The bottle was an illusion." You are always a buddha; your not being a buddha is an illusion. The bottle is an illusion, you are always out of the bottle. All prisons that surround you -- of the mind, of the body, of money, of the world -- are all irrelevant. As far as your innermost being is concerned, it is not touched by anything. It is...

... -- where they have found exactly the right center from where life has arisen in your body -- when they want to commit suicide, they don't shoot themselves in the head, they don't shoot themselves in the heart, they stab underneath the navel, exactly two inches underneath. Just a good knife, and without any sound, without any torture, the man simply falls dead. Once the knife enters the center of your...

... being, your life immediately leaves this body; this body is of no more use. That is spoken of in Japan very respectfully, because unless a man knows through meditation where exactly the point is, he cannot commit suicide by hitting that point. Hitting that point is just like making a puncture in a tire. The air goes out. Hitting at the center of your being, the being simply flies out, searching for...

... of the ground by an earthquake!" Nivedano... (drumbeat) (gibberish) Nivedano... (drumbeat) Be silent... Close your eyes, and feel your body to be completely frozen. This is the right moment to look inwards. But go running, with your full consciousness, your total life energy, and an urgency that -- one never knows -- this may be the last moment of your life. You have to become a buddha. Go...

..., and sometimes I go astral travelling.] Mm, very good! Go! Have I given you a box? (he hands her one) You need it now! [A sannyasin said that whenever he did work, he felt consciously or unconsciously rejected by his superiors, and that he was not appreciated.] So don't expect! You must be expecting too much. The problem is always with you; it is never with anybody else. You must be expecting too...

... used as a symbol of the cosmos. The head, neck, and body signify the upper planes of atma, which means self; buddhi, which means intelligence; and higher manas, the awareness, consciousness. Each leg of the rat represents a different plane: the lower manas, the lower mind, the astral mind, the ethereal mind, and other physical aspects." These idiots who go on making such metaphors and symbols...

... in her life, because so much dust and rust came off her body. In the bathroom she became playful, and made a statue from that rust and dust. And because she is a goddess, she was able to breathe life into the statue. That is how Ganesh was born. And she told Ganesh, "I am taking a bath, so you sit down outside on the steps. Your father is out, don't allow anybody in." But he had no idea...

... where that head had gone? He just found a small elephant, so he cut off the head of the elephant and put it on top of the child's body. Being a supreme God, he managed to glue them together perfectly. But because the child was small and the head was too heavy, the child needed some kind of horse or vehicle to carry him, he could not walk with all that weight. And these stupid ideas have prevailed with...

... . EVEN THIS TALK IS BUT A DECORATION ON THE DOOR OF OUR HOUSE. THE IMPORTANT THING IS YOUR EXPERIENTIAL REALIZATION OF THIS STATE. He is saying that in your innermost being the unknown, the miraculous, the buddha, lives. It cannot be burned. Your consciousness cannot be burned or destroyed by any other means. It is indestructible. He is not referring to your body. Your body may be burned, you cannot...

... the body to be frozen. No movement ... Just settle in, deeper and deeper. This is the only temple. This silent space is the only buddha. This is it! Remember. To make it more clear, Nivedano ... (Drumbeat) Relax, let go, just be a watcher. The body is there, the mind is there, you are simply aware of them. This awareness is beyond life and death. This awareness is the meaning of the word 'buddha...

... are not physical, so yoga cannot be of much help. They are not even psychological, so therapies also cannot be of any help. They are more astral. So Latihan is very good for cleansing the body, but there it ends. Then one feels quiet and one feels a subtle calmness, but that cannot be the end. One starts feeling that one is missing something - in fact more so than before, because those poisons were...

... mm. Just close your eyes and raise both your hands. If something starts happening in the body energy you allow it - any trembling, shaking. Good... very good! Come back. So you belong to me - that's why you have come! You may not be aware, but you will become aware soon. In this life you may not have even thought about meditation, but you have been working through many lives. The work has never...

..., piercing all the layers of the body, mind, astral body. Just go to the center. As you come closer to the center, you are closer to the buddha. As you come deeper into yourself, you are approaching your very being. The moment you reach to the center, a great meeting happens. You and buddha merge into each other, just as two lights merge into each other, and a great silence descends, and a tremendous joy...

... arises in you. Remember only one quality that buddha has. That quality is witnessing. Whatever is happening, just be a witness, don't be identified. You are not the body, you are not the mind, you are not the astral body. You are not the silence, you are not all those flowers that are showering on you. You are only a witness. The witness is the very being of a buddha. At this moment I am facing ten...

... days after being made pope, this healthy man died of a heart attack. His personal notes, will, and medicine bottles mysteriously disappeared. Before the cause of death could be confirmed, his body was embalmed, a process which makes it impossible to detect the presence of poison. Many people feel he was murdered. The new pope, a Polack, promoted the head of the same bank to archbishop. For this man...

... paper also disappeared. And they did not get a certificate from a medical expert that he had died naturally; they immediately embalmed the body without telling anyone. After embalming the body there is no way to find whether the person has been poisoned or not. As far as I can see, he was certainly murdered because he was going against the criminal bank, and against the criminal attitude of the...

... was brought to pull my body -- the legs in one direction, the head in another direction -- to put the backbone straight. At that time I remembered that this traction machine was invented by the Christians to torture women. I have known a little bit of torture on that machine, but those women were torn apart. Sometimes legs would come off... sometimes there was no need to burn them alive. The head...

... rape his own daughter. The woman became so afraid that she ran away and became a cow. Many women do that, it is nothing special. God, seeing that the woman had become a cow, immediately became a bull! And this is how the woman went on slipping from one body into another body, and God went on running after her, becoming another male of another species. That's how all the species were created. This is...

... have some idea of where to find a beautiful girl? I want to marry again" -- just on the spot. They cannot even wait for two, three days. At least let the fire disappear, let the woman's body be burned completely. No, exactly at the funeral pyre, around it, people are sitting and discussing which girl will be suitable for the person. And the person may be old, it does not matter; a fifty-year-old...

... REALIZED HIS ENLIGHTENMENT. Studying Confucian classics, he must have understood that Confucius deals only with the outer world, society, social manners. "This is not my search; I want to know myself. I want to know what is my being, in what way my roots are connected with the cosmos; from where comes my life, and to where it goes; whether there is something more than the body and the materials that...

... constitute the body-mind system, or there is nothing except this body, which will be put on a funeral pyre, or in a grave, and will disintegrate into the earth, into its basic elements." I am reminded of a disciple of Confucius. He asked Confucius, "I have heard so much about Lao Tzu...." They were contemporaries. Sometimes it happens almost like a chain- reaction.... In China there was...

... they have not understood the message. They laughed at Bodhidharma's barking at nothing; they enjoyed. For them, entertainment is enlightenment. Monkeys are after all monkeys. But what he is saying, he is saying about humanity. If you are not a buddha, forget all about humanity. Of course you have the body of the human being, but inside, look at your mind -- it is a monkey. Only a buddha stops the...

... not know that if one watched his deep breath through twenty-four hours of the day, he would lose his sleep completely. Then it would be impossible for him to get any sleep. To make the matter worse, the bhikkhu was be ing given sleeping pills while he was doing anapansati. It created a great conflict in his body and he was really in a mess. While the drugs were trying to induce sleep in him...

..., constant watchfulness of the breath was keep ing him awake. Consequently a kind of deadlock, a crisis was created in his body, as will happen in a car if both its accelerator and brake are applied simultaneously. It was evident that the bhikkhu was in terrible suffering. Somebody told him about me and so he came. As soon as I saw him I knew that he was in the grip of a kind of madness. he had put himself...

... sleep. If he continued with his anapansati, he could easily do without sleep; it would do him no harm at all. When the bikkhu stopped anapanasati for only eight days, his sleep returned to him, and he had no use for any sedatives. Any increase in carbon dioxide inevitably increases our sleep. And everything that produces carbon in our body sends our already sleeping energies into deeper sleep, it...

... this reason that I teach you this intense and dynamic way of meditation. And oxygen has great significance. It is a tremendously precious thing. The more you fill your body with oxygen the more speedy will be your transition from the body to the soul. If you understand it rightly, you will know that your body is your dead end; the body is that part of you which shows itself because it is dead. This...

... part of you, being dead, has been solidified and therefore it is visible. And the soul is another part of you that continues to be liquid and subtle, rare and ethereal; it cannot be grasped. A good quantity of oxygen, which brings awakening and life to you, will create a good distance between your body and soul. Then you will clearly know them to be absolutely different from each other, although they...

... really oxygen that burns and becomes light. Neither the oil nor the wick nor the matchstick is that important. The oil, the wick and the matchstick are the visible parts of the lamp, they form its body. But its invisible part, the oxygen, which forms the soul of the lamp and which really burns, is not visible. I have heard that one evening a family went out to visit friends, leaving behind a boy to...

... practice of prana yam that the cave poses no problem for him. If a person has gone through pranayam in depth, if every drop of his blood, every fiber of his body has been oxygenated, he can bury himself underground for eight days and come out of it alive. The reason is simply this: he has enough oxygen in reserve to last him for eight days. Ordinarily, we don't have any surplus oxygen with us; we manage...

... spiritual sadhana could be carried on with great ease and advantage. And it was for spiritual purposes that the dead bodies of special people were preserved in them. In Tibet, dead bodies of great bodhisattvas, highly advanced souls, some of which are thousands of years old-have been preserved in very deep and secret caves. The body that Buddha had was not an ordinary body. Even the physical body, with...

... which the great soul of Buddha had been associated for eighty years, was not an ordinary thing. It was immeasurably precious and great. This body had absorbed and assimilated the rare vibes of Buddha for eighty years. It is difficult to say if a phenomenon like that will happen on this earth again. After his crucifixion the dead body of Jesus was kept in a cave. It was to be buried the next day, but...

... it was not found again. It continues to be a mystery for the Christians how his dead body disappeared, and what happened to it. There is the story of his resurrection which says that Jesus was seen by some of his disciples a few days after his crucifixion. But the question remains: what happened to Jesus after he was resurrected and when did he die again? But it is mysterious that nothing is known...

... about Jesus after the crucifixion. The Christians have no account whatsoever of the resurrected Jesus. The fact is that the dead body of Jesus was so precious that it had to be immediately removed from the cave to a place where it could be preserved safely for a long time. And this information had to be a guarded secret for the safety of the dead body. A man like Jesus is indeed rare in all history...

.... So these pyramids of Egypt-including their structure, their courts, their special features-are highly meaningful and significant. (Here in answer to an inaudible question Osho says that it is a different matter and He will discuss it separately.) Question 5 QUESTIONER: WHEN WE ENTER DEEP MEDITATION, THE BODY BECOMES INERT AND THE BREATHING THIN, WHICH IS LIKELY TO CAUSE LACK OF OXYGEN IN THE BODY...

.... PLEASE EXPLAIN THIS PHENOMENON IN THE CONTEXT OF MEDITATION AND SAMADHI- I.E. ECSTASY. Actually, when breathing has reached its full intensity and a gap is created between you and your body, when your sleeping and awakened parts seem to be separate from each other, then you will begin to move to your awakened part. At this stage the body ceases to need oxygen any more. Now it is good that the body goes...

... into sleep, that it becomes inert, as good as dead. Now your life force does not move toward the body, instead it begins to move toward the soul. It is the body that needs oxygen, the soul has no need for oxygen really. Do you follow what I say? The body needs oxygen; and when your life force moves toward the soul, the body needs a minimum amount of oxygen-just enough to keep it alive. It does not...

... need more than the minimum, and it will impede your progress if the body receives more oxygen at this stage. Therefore it is as it should be that breathing slows down and becomes thin and feeble. Breathing was useful to awaken the energy, and once the energy is awake, breathing ceases to be useful. Now your body can do with the minimum of breathing. And so there will be moments when it will come to a...

... the room. No, the key has served its purpose; it was only meant for entering the room. As long as the kundalini does not awaken, you will have to use the key of breathing with all your strength. But as soon as it is awakened, breathing becomes unnecessary. Now, as you are on your in ward journey, your body will demand very little oxygen. And then you don't have to use your volition to stop breathing...

... significant as existence, or being is. For a person in samadhi an altogether new dimension has opened, which belongs to existence and where breathing and things like it are not necessary. Now he is everlastingly established in that dimension, he exists in that dimension. He now makes use of his body only when he has to relate with us; otherwise he does not use his body. It is only to relate with us that he...

... eats, sleeps, bathes, wears clothes and does other things that the body needs. These are just his ways to relate with us. Except for relating with us he does not need his body and breathing and the rest of it. In themselves the body and its functions have no meaning for him. And his breathing becomes minimal; he breathes only that much as is necessary to produce enough life force to keep him in the...

... body. Therefore he can easily live in a place with very little oxygen. There are olden temples and caves which have hardly any doors and windows; they have no ventilators at all. They look so anachronistic for the modern times, they are wholly against hygiene, the science of health. All these ancient temples and caves that are still existing, have no openings worth the name. There are caves with no...

... arrangements for ventilation; one wonders how a whiff of air can enter them. This is so because those who lived in them did not need much air. In fact, they did not want much air to enter their sanctuaries, because the vibrations of the outside world carried by air could have destroyed the astral vibrations of the cave, which needed to be protected and preserved. It was with a view to protect and preserve...

... the store of astral energy that the temples and caves of old times had nothing like ventilation. This is not possible today. To make it possible again, it will be necessary to build a long line of the discipline of breathing. To make it possible we will need men and women who have attained to samadhi. Question 7 QUESTIONER: HOW DOES THE BUDDHIST TECHNIQUE OF ANAPANSATI-CONSTANTLY WATCHING ONE'S...

... BREATH-AFFECT THE STATE OF OXYGEN IN OUR BODIES? Anapansati has great effect on our body oxygen. This is a good question which needs to be rightly understood. Every activity of life, every function of our body is accelerated when you pay attention to it. Most of the bodily functions are autonomic; you don't have to pay attention to them, but when you pay attention they are affected. For instance, when...

...: check your own pulse first, and then watch for ten minutes how it beats and then check it again. You will find that your pulse beat has changed, it has quickened. Attention works as a catalytic agent to heighten your pulse beat, or for that matter any function of the body. The technique of anapansati is tremendously valuable. It is a way of watching your own breathing. You don't have to do a thing...

... that while breathing is going on you are at a considerable distance from it. Anapansati yoga brings about your separation from the body; you really experience it. You can try anapansati in many ways. If you watch the way you walk-if you just observe how the right foot rises and moves, and then the left foot rises and moves-if you only watch the movement of your feet, you will find in two weeks' time...

... ingredients of life; they are not harmful. Question 10 QUESTIONER: HOW IS IT THAT THE BODY BEGINS TO FEEL LIGHT AFTER DEEP AND FAST BREATHING? It is true that the body will feel light after this meditation. It will be so because our consciousness of body is one of heaviness. What we call heaviness is nothing more than our awareness of the body. The body weighs heavy on a sick person even if he is skinny and...

... wiry. But a healthy person, even if he is a heavyweight, carries his body very lightly. So it is really our body-consciousness which feels like a weight on us. And we become conscious of our body only when it is in pain, when it is suffering. We become conscious of our feet when they are hurting. We become aware of our head when it is aching. If there is no body pain, we are never aware of our body...

.... This consciousness is the measure of our suffering. We define a healthy person as one who feels as if he is bodiless. He who does not feel that he is a body, who has a feeling of bodilessness, is really a healthy person. And if he is identified with a particular part of his body it can be said that this part of his body is sick. As the amount of oxygen increases and as the kundalini awakens, you will...

... begin to have experiences that are not of the body; they belong to the soul or the atman. And on account of these subtle experiences you will simultaneously feel lightness, an extraordinary kind of weightlessness. Many people will feel as if they are levitating. Not that they really levitate-an event of actual levitation takes place only once in a long while. But because of the feeling of utter...

... after waking up in the morning the person wonders why he was flying in his dreams. It is his ambition turned into a flying bird in dreams. The same way when we enter the depths of meditation, weightlessness feels like levitation. Really weightlessness can be pictured only as levitation, there is no other way. And once in a great while the body actually levitates in a state of extreme weightlessness...

... because your whole inner mechanism undergoes a change. All your connections with the body begin to get loose, and new connections begin to form in their places. Old bridges are broken and new ones are formed. Old doors close and new ones open. So the whole house is being altered. That is why you think that many things within you are breaking down, and then you feel scared. It is natural, because the...

... OWN. BUT AT TIMES THE BODY RELAXES AND BREATHING SLACKENS. SHOULD ONE CONTINUE TO MAKE EFFORTS DURING SUCH INTERVALS? It would be good if you do. It is not a question of whether breathing continues or slackens. It does not matter much if breathing comes to a stop. The question is whether you have put in enough effort or not. What is significant is your effort, not the fruit of your efforts. What...

... any system of beliefs on it; it simply remains with the silent mind - and the silent mind is exactly no-mind. These are different expressions only. You can say 'no-mind' because there are no thoughts; you can call it 'mind-ground' - there are no thoughts either. This mind-ground can describe things as sacred, as profane, as material, as spiritual, as astral, as ethereal - this mind is capable of...

... a lion or a dragon is just sitting on your chest, you will wake up out of fear, and you will experience a great relief that it was a dream. But even the dream has its effects: your breathing shows as if you have been running fast, your perspiration shows that your body has believed, your mind has believed, that the dragon was a reality. There is no way to prove that the outside is not another...

... retarded - and with this little box I can destroy the whole world! Doesn't that scare you?" Nivedano... (Drumbeat) (Gibberish) Nivedano... (Drumbeat) Be silent. Close your eyes. Feel your body to be completely frozen. Now look inwards, with all your consciousness, with your total life energy, and with an urgency as if this is going to be your last moment. Just like a spear, move towards the center...

.... At the center you are just a witness, a pure silent space, witnessing the body, the mind - also witnessing the flowers showering on you, also witnessing that your individuality is dissolving, that you are becoming a part of the ocean. At this moment, when you are at the center of your being, you are a buddha. And remember, the buddha is not made of bones and blood and marrow. The buddha is made...

... step comes automatically, spontaneously: silence is created. The first three stages of the technique are done in order to achieve this climax of tension throughout all the layers of your being. The first layer is the physical body. Beyond that is the prana sharir, the vital body: this is your second body, the etheric body. Beyond it is the third body, the astral body. Your vital body takes in breath...

... as its food. If the normal intake of oxygen is changed, the vital body is bound to change. Deep, fast breathing for ten minutes in the first stage of the technique is a means of changing the whole chemistry of your vital body. The breathing must be both deep and fast - as deep as possible and as fast as possible. If you cannot do both, then it must be fast. Fast breathing becomes a sort of...

... hammering on the vital body and something which is asleep begins to wake: the reservoir of your energies breaks open. The breathing is like a flood of electricity throughout the whole nervous system. So you must do the first step as vigorously, as intensely as possible. You must be in it totally; not a single fragment of you should be outside of it. Your whole being should be in the breathing in the first...

... step. You are just an anarchy: breathing in, breathing out. Your total mind is in the process - breath going out, breath coming in. If you are totally in it, thoughts will cease because none of your energy is available to move into thought - there is no energy left to keep them alive. Then, when the body electricity begins to work in you, the second step begins. When bioenergy begins revolving in you...

..., working through your nervous system, many things are possible for your body. You must be free to let the body do anything it wants to do. This second step will be not only a state of letgo but a state of positive cooperation too. You must cooperate with your body, because the language of the body is a symbolic one which has ordinarily been lost. If your body wants to dance, you cannot feel the message...

..., not otherwise. If the dance is not at its maximum then it will not be effective, it will lead nowhere; people dance so many times, but it leads nowhere. So the dance must be at its maximum - and unplanned, just done instinctively or intuitively; your reason or your intellect must not come in between. In the second step just become the body, totally one with it, identified with it - just as in the...

... first step you just become the breath. The moment you bring your activity to the maximum a new, fresh feeling will surge up in you. Something will be broken: you will see your body as something apart from you; you will become just a witness to it. You do not have to try to be a witness, you just have to be identified with the body totally and allow the body to do whatever it wants to do and go...

... the mind. If the physical body, the first gear, is brought to its maximum extreme through breathing, then you can change into second gear. Then the second must be completely intense: involved, committed, with nothing remaining behind. When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that a suppressed pattern of life has...

... become natural to us. It is not natural! Look at a child: he plays with his body in quite a different way. If he is crying, he is crying intensely. The cry of a child is a beautiful thing to hear, but the cry of an adult is ugly. Even in anger a child is beautiful; he has a total intensity. But when an adult is angry he is ugly; he is not total. And any type of intensity is beautiful. This second step...

... is only difficult because we have suppressed so much in the body, but if you cooperate with the body then the forgotten language is remembered again. You become a child. And when you become a child again a new feeling comes to you: you become weightless - an unsuppressed body becomes weightless. When the body becomes totally unsuppressed, suppressions that have been accumulated throughout your life...

.... This must be eliminated. As man becomes more civilized, he becomes potentially more mad. One who is uncivilized is potentially less mad because he still understands the language of the body, he still cooperates with it. His body is not suppressed; his body is the flowering of his being. This second step must be done totally. You must not be outside the body; you must be in it. When you are doing...

..., another person will begin to cry. One will become naked, another will begin to jump and yet another will begin to laugh. Anything is possible. Move from within, move totally, and then you can proceed to the third stage. The third stage is reached as a result of an inherent sequence. In the first stage, the body electricity, or you can call it Kundalini, is awakened. It begins to revolve and move. Only...

... then can the body be in a total letgo, not before. Only when the inner movement has begun are outer movements possible. When the catharsis of the second stage is brought to a peak, to a climax, the third ten-minute stage begins. Begin to repeat vigorously the Sufi mantra: Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! The energy that has been awakened through breathing and expressed through catharsis now begins to move inward and...

... the first three stages totally, completely, holding nothing back, then in the fourth stage you will automatically fall into a deep relaxation. The body is exhausted; all suppressions have been thrown out, all thoughts have been thrown out. Now relaxation comes spontaneously - you need not do anything to make it happen. This is the beginning of meditation. The situation has been created: you are not...

... involved in it your whole body and mind begin to vibrate, the body electricity begins to move. When you feel something in your body that you have never felt before then the technique has reached you. Then no doubt remains, because you have experienced something which you have never known before. We never feel our body electricity. That too is a suppressed part of our personality: not only the mind is...

... suppressed but the body also. We are not in our bodies as much as nature has prescribed; we have suppressed our body wisdom. Once someone begins to vibrate because of the deep, fast breathing done in the first stage of the technique, his body electricity begins to move. In that moment he moves out of the grip of society: his bioenergy is so powerful that you cannot force him to conform. When the energy...

... that is ordinarily lying dormant in the body stimulated by the deep, fast, intense breathing. Then every experience that comes through the body becomes authentic. We call something real because we feel it through the body. I say that you are real because I can see you, I can touch you. If I cannot touch you then you are a hallucination; I cannot believe in you. If I cannot touch you I cannot show you...

... to others. Our reality is that which can be validated through the body. Any technique that opens up a new dimension of experience for the body becomes real to us. Then there is no more doubt about the technique and one can proceed further. That is why I emphasize the breathing in the first step. Then, in the second step, the breathing will continue on its own. Meanwhile there will be many reactions...

... in the body; they may take many forms, but they will all be happenings, they will not come through discipline. And so many things will happen! Question 4: HOW SHOULD ONE SIT WHEN PRACTICING THE TECHNIQUE? You can sit in any position but it is better if you are standing. The eyes should be closed and the technique should be done on an empty stomach. In the second step, relax the body. Give it...

... freedom; don't suppress it. Go on breathing and allow the body to move, to vibrate, to dance, weep, laugh. Let whatever happens, happen: the body will take its own course and many things will begin to happen. Then, in the third step, while still breathing intensely and allowing your body to do whatsoever it wants to do, begin to repeat the Sufi mantra - Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! - with no gaps between the sound...

.... This must be done as vigorously as possible - so that you know you are not withholding any energy. Involve yourself totally. By and by, the repetition of the sound will become more and more vigorous, more and more intense. During the first step, the total attention must be on the breathing. And when you breathe deeply the second step will emerge as an outcome of the first: the body begins to move...

.... You are not to relax even for a moment; continuous effort is to be there. Then relax into the second stage, allowing your body the freedom to express whatever has been held back in the past. The body will begin to move, to dance, etcetera, and soon you will begin to feel that you are something separate from the body. You will see the body weeping, laughing, crying so clearly that you will not be...

... able to identify yourself with the one who is doing all this. You will see yourself jumping, dancing: something is happening mechanically. You will begin to see the body as a separate entity. It is only when the body becomes an automaton that the consciousness feels itself to be separate; until then there is always identification with the body. Question 5: WHY ARE WE NORMALLY NOT ABLE TO FEEL...

... DISIDENTIFIED WITH THE BODY? You are totally identified with your body because normally there is no gap between you and your body. What you are doing, your body is doing, and vice versa. You and the doings of your body are identified as one and the same. But when the body takes its own course, it becomes an automaton. Things begin to happen which you had never planned, which you never thought possible. "...

...;Am I doing this? Am I feeling this?" And you know that you are not doing it. You did not will it but still the dance goes on - and vigorously, too. Then there is a gap. The gap between the doer and the doing is there: you are not doing it. Now the body has become an automaton. Consciousness cannot identify itself with an automaton. You cannot identify yourself with a machine unless the machine...

.... But when the body moves without your conscious exertion then it becomes a separate machine. Only then can you see that you are separate from the body. This is such a distinct feeling that no confusion remains. That is why I emphasize body movement. Let it happen. Whatever happens, let go. You will see that your body has become like that of a madman, or an animal, or a machine, and you will not be...

... able to identify with it, so you remain aloof. Now you begin to be a witness. In the second step of the technique you begin to witness all that is happening. The body is moving, the hands are moving, forming many mudras - mudras that you have never known or planned. Your inner witness comes into being. You begin to see the happenings as something outside yourself; now you are not the doer but just a...

... seer. There is no question of your doing anything; you begin to see. In the beginning the identification with the body may be there, but as you allow yourself to let go more and more into the technique, action vanishes. If the body falls to the ground you will not think that you have fallen but that the body has fallen. Then, in the third step you are to shout Hoo! Hoo! Hoo! with total intensity. You...

... Meditation, so they say that there is a soul, the atman, because all they have known is the coming in and the going out of the soul. But the fourth stage is just a glimpse. You go out - you leave the body, the mind, the ego - and you come back again. It is not the point of no return; there is every possibility of coming back. You come back because the whole mechanism is still there waiting for you. You...

... DOES ONE CONTINUE TO LIVE IN THE BODY? Certainly, because the working of the body is another process. It has a process of its own; one can live in it or one can go out of it. To others it seems as though one is still living in the house, but for the resident the house is no longer there. The whole universe becomes the body. Question 11: IS THERE STILL AN INDIVIDUAL BODY? No. It only seems so to...

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... beginning of a Buddha. You can stop at Epicurus, then you will miss much. But it is better to stop at Epicurus than not to enter into Epicurus at all. Because then you miss all. I teach you spiritual hedonism - that is my message to you. First be hedonistic as far as the first body is concerned. Then be hedonistic as far as the second body is concerned. And then be hedonistic totally in the third body...

.... Buddha is orgasmic. But you have to learn the orgasm from the physical, you have to go from abe. There are people who want to jump to xyz - and they don't know anything about abc. They have not yet even learned how to live in the body in the world, and they want to live in Heaven. They will not be able to live there, it will be impossible. Just think of yourself - if you are by accident welcomed into...

... be lived only if you don't divide existence into two - body/mind, matter/soul, God/existence. If you divide, you will remain in the intellect. Drop all divisions, live as one. All the three bodies have to be lived as one. They are three aspects of your being - the physical body, the bliss body and the Buddha body. And I am not against any - I am not saying choose the Buddha body against the...

... physical body. If you choose the Buddha body against the physical body, your Buddhahood will miss something, will lack something. It will not be perfect, it will not be the total flowering. When you don't reject anything, when your acceptance is utter, then you bloom. Then you bloom into a thousand-petalled lotus, SAHASRAR. The second question: Question 2: BELOVED OSHO, SINCE FALLING IN LOVE, EVEN THOUGH...

... HAVING LITTLE TO DO WITH HIM, IT SEEMS ENTIRELY MY OWN JOURNEY. FEELING NOURISHED AND MUCH POWER IN MY BEING. The question is from Anand Amrita. Love IS nourishment. Love is exactly like food to the soul. Food is nourishment for the body, love is nourishment for the soul. Without for you will die physically, without love you will die spiritually - in fact you will not even be horn. The body needs food...

..., the soul needs love. And Jesus is right when he says, 'Man cannot live by bread alone.' Because the bread is bread only for the body. You will have to seek and search something which nourishes your soul. So, Amrita, be always in love. And remember one thing: Lovers don't matter, love matters. If one lover disappears from your life, don't become sour and bitter. If one lover has moved away from you...

... will be making love somewhere, remember...and you will be trapped again. You cannot escape so easily - there are fools and fools. Before you will be escaping from this body you will be caught in another net. And again you will have to go to the school and the college and the university - just think of that! Think of all those miserable experiences - that will prevent you from committing suicide. You...

... love imagination it is okay, if you love fantasizing it is okay. You can create your own planes and your own astral travels and subtle bodies and whatsoever you want. A young woman dreamt that the prince charming had come on his horse. A beautiful horse and the beautiful prince - and she has been waiting for this prince charming for ever and ever, and he has come. When you wait too much, beware - it...

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... DEEP NEED - BORN OUT OF MY GRATEFULNESS TO YOU, BELOVED OSHO, FOR ALL THAT YOU HAVE DONE FOR ME, FOR ALL THAT YOU ARE. THE WORLD HAS NOTHING LEFT NOW BUT YOU. I WOULD LIKE TO BE NEAR YOU NOW AND UNTIL I LEAVE THIS EARTHLY BODY, EVEN IF IT MEANS THAT THIS LITTLE BUBBLE HAS TO HOLD BACK A LITTLE BIT. IS IT ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY TO SAY GOODBYE WHEN ONE HAS REACHED THE OCEAN OF BLISS? Jivan Mary, the...

..., kundalini, astral bodies, is dangerous as knowledge. As experience it is a totally different thing. Don't acquire it as knowledge. If it is needed for your spiritual growth, it will come to you in its right time, and then it will be an experience. And if you have an acquired knowledge, borrowed knowledge, it is going to be a hindrance. For example, Hindu yoga believes in seven chakras, Jaina scriptures...

... most important. The fourth is from where your energy moves beyond humanity into divinity. There is one chakra more which is at the top part of your head, but you will not come across it in your life journey. That's why I am not counting it. After the fourth, you have transcended body, mind, heart, all that is not you - only your being remains. And when death happens to such a person... That's why in...

... person who dies after transcending the fourth chakra... his energy, his being leaves the body, cracking the skull into two parts; that is the sahasrar chakra. Because it is not part of your life experience, that's why I am not counting it. The four are your life experience. This one is the death of a person who is enlightened. He does not die from the hara. That's why in India no school has taken note...

... hundred years. Certainly he proved one fact: that your psychology, your mind, your body, are impressed by the vibrations in which you live. So you will come to experience chakras, you will come to experience energy fields, but it is better not to be knowledgeable, because that is a difficult problem. You may read a book written five thousand years ago by a certain kind of people and you may not be of...